Food, fetishism and fine art in the age of Instagram
In the Flemish city of Antwerp in 1564, a young painter called Joachim Beuckelaer sat down to work on an abundant market scene: baskets piled high with glossy crimson plums, huge mounds of pale, veined cabbages, heaped platters of grapes and tranches of spindly carrots, dimpled cucumbers and dainty...
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| Published in | FT.com |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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The Financial Times Limited
25.09.2023
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| Summary: | In the Flemish city of Antwerp in 1564, a young painter called Joachim Beuckelaer sat down to work on an abundant market scene: baskets piled high with glossy crimson plums, huge mounds of pale, veined cabbages, heaped platters of grapes and tranches of spindly carrots, dimpled cucumbers and dainty sweet peas. In her world, animal carcasses hang as if in a butcher’s shop, a roasted and steaming turkey waits on the table, and a slice is cut from a tiered chocolate cake, but look closely and you’ll see that each subject is covered in glossy brunette hair. Californian painter Hilary Pecis’s playfully messy tablescapes depict the detritus of a table the morning after a late night – champagne, wine bottles, celery and tomato juice for Bloody Marys and Sriracha bottles jostling with coffee pots. |
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